Smart Cards, RFID, Biometrics and Hand-Held Devices – Advanced Technologies Adopted by Hospitals

Frost & Sullivan recently hosted a two day Healthcare IT Executive MindXchange – “IT Advancements in Healthcare Delivery”, at The Leela, Goa. This high profiled summit addressed the dynamic changes taking place in IT adoption by Indian Healthcare delivery services and focused on the advances that would impact them in the near future.  Read more…

Health Fitness Corporation Screens 40,000 Workers in First Six Months of 2007

Health Fitness Corporation (HFC) announced today that it screened nearly 40,000 workers across the country during the first half of 2007 — an increase of 77.4 percent over the same period in 2006.  Read more…

Massachusetts Governor Signs into Law Comprehensive Identity Theft Prevention Legislation

Governor Deval Patrick from Massachusetts announced today that he signed into law comprehensive identity theft prevention legislation. This new law will require Massachusetts state residents be notified immediately if their personal information has been lost or stolen via security breaches with businesses and government agencies.  Read more…

Credit monitoring not a cure-all for ID theft

DENVER (KWGN) — Your personal information can be gold mine for criminals, so you probably guard it carefully.  Read more..

Conference to focus on advances in biometrics.

The latest trends in biometrics research and development, as well as the application of biometrics technologies in many important government programs and commercial settings, will be the topic of the Biometric Consortium Conference 2007 on Sept. 11-13, in Baltimore, Md.  Read more…

Biometric security enters the mainstream

Not long ago biometrics belonged firmly in the realm of science fiction, but technical advances and increased security concerns are pushing the technology into the mainstream.  Read more…

Stolen laptops an open door to ID theft

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Here’s something scary: Millions of personal files on consumers are stored on laptop computers routinely left in areas accessible to thieves.  Read more…

SA Health gets bio smartcard

THE South Australian Department of Health will lock down its patient information systems with smartcards and biometric technology as part of a 10-year, $375 million computing and communications overhaul. Read more…

Firm proves biometrics and privacy can work together

Privacy has had a rare victory in one of Australia’s most successful public biometric roll outs by health insurer Australian Health Management, which has registered more than 13,000 members to its voice verification platform since last December.  Read more…

Keeping data secure with biometrics

Fingerprint readers have been offered as PC peripherals since the late 1980s, but have never caught on, says Jim Wayman, a biometrics expert.  Read more…